by Pepper Basham | May 19, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
I’m attending the Blue Ridge Christian Writers’ Conference this week in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Besides spending my days in the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains, I have the opportunity of listening to some fabulous presenters and meeting lots of other...
by Pepper Basham | May 15, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
I was invited to speak at the hooding ceremony of some of my graduate students this past weekend. It was a nice experience, one I’d hadn’t participated in since I was hooded ten years ago, and I’d forgotten the emotional intensity that can accompany...
by Pepper Basham | May 14, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
David Kerisey has studied personalites for over 20 years. In his book Please Understand Me, he lists four basic temperments with four subgroups under each one. The four main temperments are: Guardian, Artisan, Rational, and Idealist.I’m currently using the...
by Pepper Basham | May 13, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
LOVE CAN COVER A MUTITUDE OF SINSWashed ashore on Fairweather Key, Ruby O’Shea and her three nieces─the offspring of the pirate Thomas Hawkins and Ruby’s late sister─have a chance for a new beginning as Ruby takes a job in a boardinghouse and the girls are passed off...
by Pepper Basham | May 13, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
In Donald Maas book The Fire in Fiction, he discusses making one-dimensional versus three-dimensional characters. Perfect heroes make for boring characters. Also, to have reader-appeal, characters must have elements of humanity. This doesn’t mean that they...
by Pepper Basham | May 11, 2009 | Fiction Book Reviews
A. J. Degulio loved the idea of a visit to the Old Country… until her family decided to stay. It’s 1972 and she’s turning fourteen in a crumbling castle on a hill in Tuscany, wishing she were back in Idaho with her beloved dog, Sailor. In Italy, her...
